The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1887-02-24

| A project is on foot in London for send
ing 5000 jewish colonists to Mexico to be
distributed among the agricultural d ..
tricts. The pr posed colonists ore vic:
tins OF Russian persecution:
The Iowa railroad commissioners have
| decided the case Brought from Glenwood
against the Burlington and Quincy, in
which is involved an important applica.
| ton OF the interstate commerce law. Com
| plant was made that higher rates from
Iowa points are changed to Glenwood that
to Council Bluffs, a greater distance. The
! board held that the principle OF the inter-
state commerce bill relative TO- the long
and short hauis should apply to points
within the state. and to charge, more for
longer than short distance is extortion.
Capt. William Turtle, ono OF the most
| noted 81 American detectives, died in Chi
cago OF paralysis. His most celebrated
capture was that OF Thomas Morrison and
William Prout who robbed this American
Express Company OF Sal, 900 in 1866.
Benjamin Calendar & Co., OF Boston,
wholesale ha rdware, have failed and gone in.
to insolvency: Liabilities, S IL, 900; assets
unknown. The senior partner, Benjamin
Calendar, died a month ago, and the sur.
viving partners have found the firm IN:
solvent.
1t is alleged that Lieut.. John j. Shaw,
Sixth infantry, has been guilty OF duplicat.
ing his pay accounts. He lett his station
at Fort Douglas, Utah. on leave OF alb
| sence last December and so far as heard
from four separate accounts for that
and claim agents, three OF which have been
paid BY paymasters in different parts of
the country. 1t is feared that the returns
OF the pay department will sh ow a similar
condition in his accounts for the month OF
January. He was last heard from at Hot
Springs.
Thomas B. Connery, Of New York, was
| confirmed to be secretary OF legation at
tho City OF Mexico.
The president has allowed the act app
propriating $4OO,O n year to provide
arms and equipments for the militia to
become u law without his signature. His
failure to sign the bill within ten days is
regarded as an oversight, as he was not
known to object to it.
James Russell Lowell will be in London
again bout Easter.
A man arrested for the supposed murder
OF c. A. Scoficld, OF Winnipeg, proves to be
Scofeld himself.
The trial OF Dillon. Redmond, O'Brien
and others, on tho charge OF conspiracy
for agitation in favor OF the plan of cam
paign, has opened. F. Redmond was absent
| on account Of illness. Traverse's counsel
| raised several technical points against the
proceedings.
At the Graves sale OF pictures in New
York c. p. Huntington, the railroad
macnate, paid $40, 900 for ono OF Corot's
pictures.
The estate of the late Moses Williams OF
Boston amounts to about $4,OOO,OOO.
10 hoa E,
| where he spends all his spare cash on
| agricultural experiments.
Senator Davis aud wife Of Minnesota ar
rived in Washington and are quartered at
Wizards. Senator Davis was taken in
| charge on the floor OF the senate by Sena-
tors Spooner and Sabin and introduced
| to the more prominent members Of that
body. He made q very favorable impress
| sion.
! Postoffices established: Minnesota:
| ktmball, Stearns county. Wisconsin:
Saxon, Ashland county. Discontinued
| Dakota: kinloss, Walsh county. Iowa:
Mcknight, Humboldt county. Postmas-
ters commisioned-Minn Milan, o.
X. Opjordan.
Hiram w. Hall was nominated post.
master at St. Charles, MINI. He
is Democrat and editor and propric-
tor OF the St. Charles News. His nominal
| ton was secured by Congrcssman-e elect
Wilson. MIR. Hall succeeds John Picket,
| whose term OF office has expired.
| kilograms from European capitals arc
! increasingly warlike. Berlin dispatches as.
sert that the German government has re-
ccived positive advices OF continued con.
centrations OF French troops in direct
| contradiction to the instructions alleged to
| have been issued by Gen. Boulanger. Lato
Paris kilograms confirm the report OF the
Alsace Lorraine garrisons being brought
up to war strength and give additional &C
counts OF heavy movements OF German
troops toward the French frontier. Wen.
ma dispatches state that the ministry OF
war have suddenly stopped work on
French and Russia contracts for magazine
| rifles, revolvers and munitions OF war at
all the factories having contracts on hand.
All factories are now working exclusively
on small arms and ammunition for the
Austrian government. The press censor
| ship at St. Petersburg has to q great ex-
tent dried up the source OF information,
but through Roumanian channels it is
learned that two complete Russian corps
are completing their concentration in the
southeast and heavy reinforccments are
going from the interior to the southwest.
The flood at Lyons, Mich, is terrible. A
panic has seized the people. The water in
some places is four feet deep in many resi-
dences and the same state OF affairs pre-.
walls in storerooms. Everybody is NOV
ing or preparing to move.
The president and Mrs. Cleveland at
tended Wilson Barrett,s performance of
Hamlet at the Nationa! thea tre The
presidential party and other occupants of
the boxes were presented satin programmes
fringed with gold, and superb boquets.
John spIan has bought OF Louisville
men the black gelding Wilkes i've years
old, by George Wilkes, own brother to the
horse Jersey Wilkes, for whom J. Ijams OF
Ierre Haute, Ind, some time ago paid
$4,000: Splan paid $4,000 for the geld
ing, which has no record, but showed re-
peated miles in 2:23 last fall ~ a four
year old.
Brock & Wiener, wholesale clothing man.
ufacturers and dealers, Buffalo, n Y. have
assigned. Liabilities, 5000, 200; prefer
enccs, $15O.OOO.
Pugilistic weights are: Feathers, up to
115 pounds; light weights, from 115 to
13O; middle weights, 100 to $50, and
heavy weights over $50.
Justices Blachford and Matthews, Of the
supreme bench, are conceded to be the best
judges OF tea in Washington.
Eddie Goose, aged sixteen, of Kinzua
Pa, APPARENTLY died, but during the funeral
ceremony came to life and will probably
regain his health.
Senator elect Quay OF Pennsylvania
will, with his wife, spend some weeks in
Florida.
Secretary Endicott is fond OF old, rare
wines, and is considered a good Judge OF
| the rosy.
The president has nominated Samuel N.
Aldrich OF Massachusetts to be assistant
treasurer of the United States at Boston.
Lew G. Williams OF Columbus, Wis, is
missing, and is thought to have been frozen
to death.
Twenty-Five additional indictments for
election frauds have been found by the fed
eral grand jury in st. Louis
The defalcation OF Gen. Thomas A. 10.
seph, treasurer of the Texas grand lodge OF
Odd Fellows is 500, 1856. The money was